If you are anything like me, then you've got a list of websites that include lots of exciting content, which you want to include in your course. I've got all of mine saved in a Word document, but let's look at getting these transferred over to Moodle. Here are my options:
Simply upload the Word document. We learned how to do this in Chapter 3.
Make a list of links in the course main page.
Create a Moodle web page and include the links in that.
We've already looked at the problems of uploading a Word document in the previous chapter, and although convenient, it would be far better to have my list of links in Moodle, rather than in a file that is, technically, outside of Moodle. Here's why:
Students may not have the correct file viewer installed on their computer (an important issue we covered in the previous chapter).
We make it easier for students to find the links.
I can mix links to external websites and links to files I've uploaded, and do so seamlessly.
If we link to...